What action, Gordon?

There's an interesting line in Matt's account of Brown's talk this morning:

Even foreign policy, he suggested, would be affected: if Rwanda happened today, he said, the images and stories dispersed on the web would make it impossible for the international community not to intervene.

Really?

We are living through a huge tragedy, with stories about it widely dispersed on the web and other media: Burma. And where's the intervention from the international community? There isn't any. There's a lot of hot air, and nothing more.

And there's exactly the same attitude as there was in regard to Rwanda - a craven refusal to upset the order of things, however inhuman that order may be.

So much for the impact of people power.

(BTW, apologies for the formatting on today's posts - a spanner is in the works.)